Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Great Ancestor gives the Maidens in Marriage. Leading Wife’s sleeves were not as fine as Junior Sister’s sleeves. Changes are coming. The Way opens.
This is a secure place on the path to union. Use it to find the hidden source of the old story full of sexual intrigue and domestic violence and free yourself from its grasp. Re-imagine the situation. You will find supportive friends. Gather energy for a decisive new move.
Book of Changes
六五, 帝乙歸妹, 其君之袂, 不如其娣之袂良, 月幾望, 吉.
Richard Wilhelm
The sovereign I gave his daughter in marriage.
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The embroidered garments of the princess
Were not as gorgeous
As those of the serving maid.
The moon that is nearly full
Brings good fortune.
The sovereign I is T'ang the Completer. This ruler decreed that the imperial princesses should be subordinated to their husbands in the same manner as other women (cf. Hexagram 11, six in the fifth place). The emperor does not wait for a suitor to woo his daughter but gives her in marriage when he sees fit. Therefore it is in accord with custom for the girl's family to take the initiative here. We see here a girl of aristocratic birth who marries a man of modest circumstances and understands how to adapt herself with grace to the new situation. She is free of all vanity of outer adornment, and forgetting her rank in her marriage, takes a place below that of her husband, just as the moon, before it is quite full, does not directly face the sun.
